ASSOCIATED
PRESS
DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVI
Important Measures In
Senate Are Threatened
By Filibuster Methods
With End of Congress ini
Sight Strange Mixture of
Emotions Is Gripping the
Members of the Senate.
HOUSE GOING
ABOUT AFFAIRS
It Will Be Ready When
Adjournment Comes But
Filibuster May Block
Legislation.
Washington, March 3. —C4*)—The
old Congress approached its end today
ninid the stirring of a strange mixture
of omotioua.
While fury brooded over a henry,
eyed Senate with one all-night seaaion
behind it and another In prospect, the
house 1 proceeded quietly to put ita af
fairs in final order
The Senate’s suffering centered
about a filibuster-bound attempt by
Reed of Missouri" to put through a
resolution extend.tig the life of hla
campaign funds committee, and it np
(reared possible that the battle might
squeese the life out of the a.ien prop
erty bill, a deficiency appropriation
measure, and the $125,000,000 public
buildings bill. At the house end of
the capltol the only remaining busi
ness consisted of the usual legisla
tive odds and ends.
As the sun peeped dismally through
the skylight ceilings of the two chain
hers, it looked upon a picture out of
all harmony with traditions. It seemed
certain that the Senate, called many
times the greatest deliberative body in
the world, had fu ly determined to die
with its boots on. And the house,
celebrated for its robust pugnacity,
was like one who looked upon the end
with utter resignation.
A single senator, R'ease, of South
Coro ina. dominated the situation in
the Senate. Enlisted at the start by
the fi.ibusterers against tbs Reed reso
lution, tbe tempestuous South Caro
linian, ojberted to all agreements
reached by ieadera on both aides of
the fight, by which there might have
been a fespitc and passage of the
public hot dings, alien property - anff
tbe second deficiency appropriation
ings of both republicans and demo
crats who followed him about the
chamber and sought to pacify him in
more private conferences in cloak
rooms and corridors.
At one time while bis colleagues
were pressing him on the floor, Sena
tor Blease ealled upon chance to de
cide the issue, flipping a coin on tbe
floor of the Senate. As he picked
up the coin he shouted “I object.”
At another point after he had been
called from b.s scat in hack row' of
the democratic side of the chamber
to tbe front row of the repub icau
side for a brief conference with Sena
tor Wadsworth, republican 'of New
York, the South Carolinian an
nounced
"Mr. President, I have four aces,
and on that hand I stand', pat.”
The fight over the campaign funds
committee resolution began just at
nightfall with the democrats and tbe
republican insurgents forcing the is
sue against a comparatively small
group of republican regulars.
Under the leadership of Reed, of
Pennsy.vanla, a distant cousin of the
Missourian, the latter group an
nounced that It was ready to battle
to the end of the session to prevent
action on the resolution. Reed, of
Missouri, countered with a declara
tion that he would hold the Senate
in session until a vote had been ob
tained
Senator Redd, of Pennsylvania, add
ed fuel to the filibuster by present
ing tbe new credeutaias of William
S. Vare, senator-elect from Pennsyl
vania, thus starting an argument that
helped to kill time. The credentials
were signed by Governor Fisher, of
Pennsylvania, and superseded a more
indefinite election certificate sent to
the Senate by former Governor Gifford
Pinchot.
MR. COOUDGE SIGNS
THIRD DISTRICT BILL
His Nomination for Judgeship is Ex
pected hi Short Time.—Offices at
Greensboro.
Washington, March 2.—President
Coolidge today signed a bill creating
a new federal judicial district for
North Carolina to be known as the
midd e district.
Chariot ;e Gels Offices of the Western
District,
Raleigh, March 2.—Charlotte, un
der tbe judicial measure signed by
President Coolidge, becomes sest of
the federal judicial district of North
Carolina which will take in but four
counties from tbe eastern district of
which Raleigh remains tbs sest.
McDermott Denim He Made Confes
don.
Columbus, 0., March 3.—(M—Pat
rick McDermott, convicted slayer of
Don R. MeSiet, Canton editor, today
emphatically denied reports that be
has made any confession or revela
tion-concerning the murder. <
, ■— -
Doheny Doses Millions In Cancelled
I ssnns
Washington, Mar. I.—Edward L.
Doheny will lose $21,686,928 as a re
su't of the supreme court’s decision
of yesterday cancelling his leases of
Elk Hills, Calif., oil reserve from
the nnvj department.
The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina's Leading Small City Daily
TWO BRING BOOMED
FOR NEXT SPEAKERSHIP
Graham, of Orange, sad Nettles, of
Buncombe Being Boasted for the
Job.
Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, March 3.—Two booms for
the speakership for the next Ueucrsl
Assembly, two years hence, have got
ten under way coincident with the
final rush of what should be but is
not the final week of the present ses
sions. These booms are for-, Repre
sentative Harry Nettles of Buncombe,
and Representative “Sandy” Graham,
of Orange—Nettle* from the western
part of the State, and Graham from
the central section. There are rum
blings that a candidate from the east
ern pert of the state will also be en
tered, bat as yet these are mere mm
blings.
No statement has been ipade by
Nettles ae to his candidacy, and his
boom is being fostered almost entire
ly by his friends, who paint to his
record of five terms in tbe legislature,
during which he has taken a large
part in its deliberations, They also
hold it is due time that a man from
Western North Carolina be elevated
to tbe office of speaker, and that Net
tles is ably fitted in every way to con
duct this office with ability.
The boom for Graham is much old
er, having gained some headway early
in Hie session, and having increased
since. Graham has been chairman of
the house finance committee, and has
made an excellent impression by the
manner in which he conducted the
many hearings before the committee
and p-’toted the revenue bill through
the committee and'the house. His
friends point to the fact that he is
level-headed, ban common sense and
has demonstrated marked ability to
handle difficult situations.
Thus a campaign that has two years
in which to grow h«s already got un
der way. While there is a possibility
for many upsets to occur in that
time, there in no doubting tbe old ap
plicability of tbe saying about the
early bird, as far as races for the
speakership are concerned.
legislators will have to
DO A LITTLE OVER TIME
•f Mu! Wmll ' r% *~~ •.
Raleigh, N. <J„ March 2.—INS.)—
Indications are that the North Caro
lina General Assembly will have to
do a little overtime for which they
will twelve no pay.
Auyhow this probability faces the
legislators as they dig into congested
calendars dnring the final week of the
00-day constitutionally-limited stay at
Raleigh.
The solons have abandoned all hope
for a sine <He adjournment by the ex
piration of the 00-day session which
falls on Saturday. They are hoping
to leave the capital around the mid
dle of next week.
Despite its promising start, the
1927 General Assembly is just as far
behind with i|s business as any of its
tardy predecessors, and now is recon
ciled to fan-king* few days extra,
e A number of the big issues of the
session are yet to be disposed of. These
include t|e support of the six months
school, several constitutional amend
ment bills, tbe anti-Klan bill, county
government reform legislation and the
workmen’s compensation bill.
In addition to these statewide bills,
calendars of both houses are crowded
with local bills. Bach day brings in
additional local bills in quantities of
SO or more.
With Our Advertisers. •
Get ready fr Oliver Day at Y’orke
& Wadsworth Co’s. Tuesday, March
Bth. All, fanners Will be welcomed.
Efird’s ha* jnst received a big ship
ment of spring suits for men and
young men that are 100 per cent. wool.
Prices $25 and $27.50. Rxtra values
in new spring hats and broadcloth
shirts.
Only $1 cash puts a Sellers kitchen
cabinet in your borne, with 4 32-piece
china set and a lot of groceries free.
This offer ie -open at tbe Concord Fur
niture Co. for only two more days.
See ad.
Wilkinson’s Funeral Home is open
day and night.
Ton will find everything to make
your party .attractive at the Kidd-
Frix Co. See ad. for list.
Don’t miss “Tell It to the Ma
rines” at the Concord Theatre today
and tomorrow, a good pictures. Prices
15 and 85 cents. Vaudeville tomorrow
night, 25 and 60 cents,
Let the Boyd W. Cox Studio de
velop your snow pictures.
ScMoss Bros, spring suits, many
with tow pain of pasts, $26 to $45,
at Hoover’s.
Gdats in tbe manner of Paris cre
ated by America’s greatest designers,
at the Gray Shop, This store spe
cialises In odd nixes, and can fit you.
SUk Sale at the Pariu-BsOt Co.’s.
The big Silk Week Sale at tbe
Parks-Belk Co., begins Friday, March
4th, and continues through Saturday,
March 12th. All alike, including tbe
new novelty spring silk, will be in
cluded in thin sale. These include fiat
crepe, canton crepe, crepe de chine,
satin crepe, stipple crepe, georgette
crepe and printed pussy willow. It
will be to your interest to visit this
big store every day during this silk
sale.
Great thoughts never cou»« to a
man while e is discontented or fret
ful. ,
LEGISLATURE TODAY
AUTHORIZED BONDS
FOR HIGHWAY WORK;
Senate Passes Bill Carry- 1
ing s3o,ooo,ooo.—Meas
ure Already Passed by;
the House.
SPEEDING” WORK v
ON LOCAL BILLS
New Measures Being Pre
sented Much Faster Than
Old Ones Can Be Dis
posed Os.
Raleigh, March 3.— UP) —The North
Carolina General Assembly today au
thorized the issuance of $30,000,000
worth of bonds for continuation of the
state’s highway program.
The Senate passed a House bill au
thorising tbe issue without opposition,
after voting down amendments that
would have cut the issue to $25,000,-
000 and that would have prevented
counties from loaning money or giv
ing bonds to the State Highway Com
mission. ,
With time before tbe end of the
session growing short, both branches
of the Legislature today were speed
ing up in an effort to care for neces
sary business and to reduce the num
ber of days they might have to serve
without pay.
The House required a half hour to
day for hearing of committee reports
and then received a deluge of new
bills.
When the second reading roll call
was reached, 106 members were In
the hall, despite waist-deep snow drifts
surrounding the capitol.
The House deferred action on the
administration measure known as the
■ounty finance act after debating it
half an hour.
It passed bills to create sanitary dis
tricts in the state and deferred action
on the Royall loan limitation const!-
’irons’ amendment bill. A bill to re
lieve a Presbyterian orphanage near
Danville, Va., of payment of North
Carolina inheritance tax on a bequest
was passed.
The State revenue machinery act
was passed. Its provisions were the
-aine as heretofore, except for ehaari
e» allowing for quadrennial resolution*
if 'lUßjlrln |n ’gl’-'l - -
* Six new local, bill a came as 4 re-i
suit of the call for new bills in the
senate before it swung into third read-1
ing roll call. The permanent im- '■
provement bill on motion of Senator
Pat Williams was put on the calen
dar and made first special order for
consideration on Friday morning. The
maintenance bill was set as the sec
ond special order for Friday.
By unnnimous consent this morning !
the senate agreed to give the old rock
quarry . property east of the city to
Raleigh. The bill now goes to the
House.
ROWAN YOUTH RILLED
WHILE HUNTING TODAY
Bonks Ritchie, Son of W. L. Ritchie,
Accidentally Shot When He Slipped
in Snow.
Banks Ritchie, l-», won of Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Ritchie, of Rowan county,
was accidentally shot and killed this
morning while hunting near his home,
relatives here have been advised.
Mrs. James L. Ridenhour, of East
Depot street, this city, sister of Mr.
Ritchie, aays she has beelt advised
that the boy slipped on the snow while
rabbit limiting, discharging his gun,
the full load entering his body. He
died almost instantly. Further par
ticulars were not given to Mrs. Riden
bour, she said.
Mr. Ritchie formerly lived in Ca
barrus county and he and members
of his family have many friends in
Cabarrus who will regret to learn of
the accident.
Hartness To Be Federal Court Clerk.
Shelby, March 3.—UP)—Definite
decision as to where be will maintain
headquarters aa the seat of the west
ern North Carolina Federal Court
district has not yet been made. Judge
E. Y. Webb said at bis borne here
today. He said be was as yqt unde
cided between Asheville and Charlotte.
The judge said however, that J. A.
Hartness of Statesville would be ap
pointed clerk of the western district.
Waterfront Fire Under Control.
Jersey City, March 3. — -UP) —After
six hours of toil ia a driving gaie and
sub-freezing weather, 27 companies of
firemen today conquered a -fife that
had threatened to barn out tbe Hud
son River waterfront.' The loss was
estimated at from $750,000 to $1,000,-
060.
Dr. R M. Morrow Dead.
Burlington, March 3.— UP) —Dr. R.
M. Morrow, of Burlington, who was
trustee of Eton College and president
of- the state medical, society and 4
prominent church man, died here
early today. He had been ill for some
time. Funeral services will be held
tomorrow afternoon.
Another Indictment in Mallet Case.
Canton, 0., March 3.—04*) —The
Siarf county grand jury returned a
first degree murder indictment against
Floyd Btreitenberger, a former Can
ton policeman, today, charging him
with complicity in the Don R. Mellctt
assassination.
British Auto Rarer Killed.
Pendiue, Wales. March 3. —J. G.
Parry-Thomas, famous British aqju
facer, was killed this afternoon in an
attempt to set another speed record.
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, MA RCH 3, 1927
OILY TWO n
MYSOFSKTM
SESSHU HI
It Seems Now That It Will
Take at Least an Addi
tional Week to Finish Up
the Urgent Work.
just twcTmore
DAYS OF PAY
At Present Only a Few of
the Outstanding Import
ant Bills Before Body
Have Been Passed.
Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKRRVII.L
Raleigh, Mar. 3.—Two more days
of the present 60-day session of the
General Assembly remain. What lias
been accomplished?
Very little, in one sense, and it
appears that it wifi require at the
very least an additional week alter
the official 60 days—and the $4 a
day pay expires, for the assembly to
finish up even the most urgent of it
unfinished business.
For at present only a very few of
the outstandingly important bills
have been enacted into law, although
more of these important measures
have passed the house than the sen
ate, ,
In addition, the general assembly
is now faced with the necessity of
providing nearly $1,000,000 adltion
al revenue than provided in the rev
enue bill. This makes the enactment
of a supplementary revenue nil!
necessary, in order to meet the ap
propriations.
It is only necessary to glance over
the calendar of tbe house and the
senate, and pick out the more im
portant measures, to sec that thfe
situation is aa depletes!. Here pre
some of these bills, and their pres
ent statu*:
Educational Bilk —Graham Mil,
where the tax on tobacco rnanufa >-
turing companies has already been
stricken out, and which it won esti
mated would yield virtually $166,
660 a year in revenue. This section
was . inserted by Represent* riv-
Townsend in the house, after the fi .
nance .committee had deleted it. ’Ehis
MB nowYaok* nearly U
yielding sufficient revenue to meet j
appropriation*.
Maintenance appropriation* bill— ,
This bull now on the calendar in
the senate, and will be, taken up ns
soon as consideration of tbe revenue
hill ia completed. The appropriations
in this bill were increased from hut'
a little more than $l5j)00,00l) to
$15,850,000 by the house, the biggest
! single increase being the educational
equalization fund, which was boost
ed from $2,500,000 -to SBJ2pO.OOO.
Permanent Improvements Appro
priation Bill—Now on. the calendar
in the?, senate, after having been
passed by the house-’,pud approved an
recommended Iby the budget coinm!-
sioti, with the exception of the item
for $90,000 for a state radio station,
which- was deleted.
Confederate Pensions Bill —Has
passed the senate, now- on calendar
In house. Provides for material in
cissasq in pension to Confederate vet-?
erans and their widows, amounting
to approximately $1 a day. Appro
priations -for this bill i* included in
the general, maintenance appropria
tion bill, and cal’s for $1,400,000 the
first year of the biennium and for
$1,100,000 tbe second year of the’
biennium. Assured of passage in
house.
Educational Billo—Graham bill,
calling for state-wide ad valorem
tax for school purposes, has passed
house and is on senate calendar.
Woltz bill, providing for continua
tion of present school taxation sys
tem, with the equalizattion fund of
$2,500,000. has passed senate and is
on calendar in bouse. Opinion is
that Graham bill will be defeated in
senate, and that the house will com
promise on Woltz bill with gqualizaz
tion fund increased to $3,250,000 as
provided for in the general mainten
ance appropriation bill.
Bill to Increase Judicial Districts
to Twenty-four—This bill has passed
both houses, but was amended in
senkte. Bill is now in conference but,
its status is regarded as precarious,
due to. inability of various factions
to agree on the re-districting of the
state.
Bill to Re-district tbe State into
24 Jud total Districts—Not yet
brought out by the committee, pend
ing outcomeq of conference on bill to,
increase number es districts.
County Government Reform Bills—
Passed by tbe senate and on the cal
endar in tbe house, where their fate
is doubtful. Designed to regulate
county affairs more economics ly, espe
cially county fiscal affairs.
Bill to authorise purchase of an ad
ditional Prison Farm—Passed by
house and on senate calendar. Calls
for expenditure of another $400,U00.
Farm Qttlony for Women Prisoners
Bill —On calendar in both senate and.
house, and .already considered In sen- -
ate,' v ith action deferred. Calls for,
appropriation of $60,000 for build*
Ings, but nothing for maintenance
provided. Outlook unfavorable in
both houses.
•s And so the list might be continued
almost indefinitely, since with almost
tbe exception of the $30,000,000 high
way bond issue bill and the Smoky
Mountains Park bill, scarcely a single
, bill of state-wide importance has been
| enacted by both houses, v *--v *
'} Neither can any definitepredictions
i be made concerning what win happen
'to a bill when it goes from one house
Working Day ahd Night On the
Bill To Redistrict the State
The Tribune Burenu
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh. March 3.—Will the re
. districting of the state to provide tin*
ifonr additional judicial districts as
proposed in the hill now iu confer
ence between the house nnd the sen
ate prove the rock ujmn which the hill
will meet shipwreck?
That ia a question that is being
much discuMted. now that the othpr
major hill* are ont of the way—tbe
maintenance and permanent improve
ment appropriations hills, whose pas
sage by the senate is virtually assured.
For white there is a decided disposi
tion to compromise on the passage of
the judicial bill, calling for four ad
ditional districts, with a judge nnd
a solicitor for each, with no reduc
tion in the salaries of the solicitors,
ami with the proposal for two perma
nent emergency judges eliminated,
there is still doubt in the minds of
a number ns to whether the state can
be redistricted in such a manner ns
to prove satisfactory to the major
ity.
Those who have followed the situ
ation closely recall that two years ago
virtually the same thing happened
that now threatens to he repeated.
A hill was Introduced almost identical
with the present bill to provide four
additional judicial districts, but when
it came to the task of creating throe
foqr districts, there was so much dis
cord, and so much scrambling on the
part of various counties to be changed
from one district to another that the
bill finally went on the rocks.
The result was the last-minute pn«-
sngc of the emergency judge act,
which has now expired, and which no
one wants to «ee renewed. Yet if
an agreement is not reached on this
present bill the judicial congestion in
the state will be even worse than it
was two years ago, since if this new
bill is not enacted, there will not even
be any emergency judges and the ex
isting twenty jqdjeial districts will be
j even more congested with litigation
to another. For the first, four or five i
weeks, the principal indoor sport of |
the house was tbe slaughtering of |
senate bills. And for the tost week or
so the senate has been retaliating by
amending bouse bills until they are
'scarcely recognizatble.
The reason, of course, has been the
almost opposite point of view taken
on a majority of subjects by the two
[houses, and by the warfare in the
house itself between the 75 “I’oor”
counties and tbe 25 wealthier ones.,.
TM) senate on the whole has run
tmt to ftr*. its-staiSiF moae or -less
eoneidiug with the attitude of the
wealthier counties.
Bo it is that with but two more
official days left in the present ses
sion, the great majority of the more
important state-wide measures are
still hanging fire, with but meagre
.indications of what will become of
them in the final rush.
,It is taken for granted that at least
an additional week will be required
to Untangle the situation.
Important hills fully enacted to
data : ’ , •
Smoky Mountains National Park,
providing $2,000,000 bond fsttue.
Hargett Highway bill, with $30.-
000,000 bond issue for roads.
State-wide game law.
Consolidation of Fisheries Com
mission with Department of Conser
vation nnd Development.
Cape Fear River bridge bill, for
$1,250,000 bond issue.
To provide, right-of-way for inland
oaiial.
That’s nil we can think of now.
Seek to Halt Auto Thieve*.
(By ’lnternational News Service.)
Raleigh. N. C., Mar. 2.—A con
certed effort to thwart automobile,)
thieve* steallug automibile* iu Norta
Carolina and fleeing into adjoining
states, where no effective automobile
title law is in force, will be made
by the Department of Revenut, ac
cording to plans announced here to
day.
Commissioner of Revenue Dough
ton has been advised by Senator V.
M. Simmons, of North Carolina,
that he will very probably be given
Federal assistance in pursuring into
adjoining states thieves of automo
biles taken from North Carolina.
Literally hundreds of automobiles
were claimed to have been stolen in
■Western North Carolina recently
and run into Tennessee and Geor
fia.
Christian Advocate Raps Duke Dances
Chaperoned University’s Professors
Greensboro, March, 3.—The North |
Carolina Christian Advocate to be
received today by the hosts of Method
ism throughout the State, contains a
leading editorial paragraph which bids
fair to arouse a great deal of comment
find perhaps some action in regard to
the control of Duke University at
Durham.
; Naming no names, the paragraph
•gets there just the saute, and is in
reality a striking denunciation of the
sance which Duke University students
gave in Durham on Friday night,
Fehruarjr 11. Coming from thhe auth
or, it does come from, there is bound
$o result, say leaders of tbe denom
ination here, a reckoning between the
Opposing factions in the church, those
Vbo would permit the university au
thorities to sponsor such n dance and
those who are unalterably opposed
to it.
| “Jesus was accustomed,” states the
paragraph in question, the first one
of the first page, “to pray at mid
night, but He never chaperoned a
dance at midnight pr at any other
hour. Heredias wait the dance chap
erone of thoee eventful days, and it
was at bet hands that John the Bap-
| than during the past two years.
Largely ns a result of the realiza
tion that if these four additional ju
dicial districts are not added to. that
the courts will Is- more crowded than
they have ever Is-en before, the friends
of this bill are hopeful that the Vari
ous differences can he successfully
ironed out nnd an agreement reached
! whereby the state rati be successfully
redistricted and the four new districts
created. They say that there is a
greater disposition to compromise qow
since it is either this bill of nothing,
and that many who earlier in the
session were ready to fight for what
thpy wanted or nothing will now make
reasonable concession* rather than
wreck the whole business now at the
last moment.
Consequently, the house committee
on courts and judicial districts is
working day and night on the bill
to redistrict the state and Reprroenta
tive Willis Smith, of Wake, chairman
of the committee, is hopeful that a
satisfactory bill will yet be worked
ont to which both the house and sen
ate will agree.
Evidence of the fact that the house
is becoming less belligerent and more
inclined to compromise is seen in the
fact that virtually no objection was
raised when it was announced that
the house and senate conference com
mittee had agreed to eliminate the
two permanent emergency judges,
rather than cut out the $750 expense
allowances of the solicitors. If the
announcement had been two nr three
days earlier, while the house was still
iu its insurgent mood, it would have
scrapped the hill rather than agree
to this change. But its mood lias
changed greatly in the last few days
as the end lias grown nearer nnd the
mountain of bi.ls on the calendar
daily larger.
Thus whilO it is by no means cer
tain that an agreement can be reached
on this present bill and the one for
redistricting the state, the outlook is
certainly much brighter than it was,
all agree.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Unchanged to 4 Point* Higher
With May Later Setting Off to
14.54.
New York, March 3.—o4o—The cot
ton market opened unchanged to six
point* higher with near months rela
tively firm on covering, but eoou eas
ed under southern selling and realiz
ing, the latter being promoted by rel
atively easy showing of Liverpool.
” May sold off from 14.54 to 14.45,
and October from 14.81 to 14.74 fey
’the end Os the first hour, the general
list ruling about 3 to 5 points net tow
er. No special news factor was par
ticularly emphasized in explanation of
the decline, hut. the extent of the re
cent advance appeared to have creat
ed reactionary sentiment. It was re
ported that European buyers were
showing signs of hesitating around tbe
higher level of prices.
Private cables reported hedge selling
and London selling in Liverpool, but
houses with Liverpool connections
were among the early buyers here.
Cotton futures opened steady. March
14.45; May 14.54; July 14.68; Oc
tober 14.80; December 14.93: Jan
uary 14.85.
THE STOCK MARKET.
Good Buying Support For Recent
Leaders Appeared At Opening of
Market.
New York, March 3. —(A*)—Good
buying support for recent leaders ap
peared at the opening of today's
stock market. Announcement that
George F. Baker’s illness was'not as
serious as firet reported led to active
short covering iu stocks of which he
is believed to be a large holder.
Houston opened two points higher,
General Railway Signal crossed 105
to a new high record, and Asphalt
moved up a point. American Woolen
Preferred dropped 1, nnd Stromberg
j Carburetor touched the lowest price
in five years.
Bow Legged Woman Seeks Beauty;
Leg Amputated.
Los Angeles, March 3. —Embar-
rassed by fashion's decree, Helen R.
Goldman, who was bow legged, sought
beautification by surgery. She de
veloped blood poisoning and one leg
was amputated. Now a jury, in
cluding four women, has awarded her
a verdict for $25,000 against two
doctors.
I tist lost his head. False prophets may
get on very well with chaperones of
midnight reVels, but true prophets
never.”
A prominent Methodist of Greens
boro, has lately received a clipping
from the Southern Methodist, of Mem
phis,’ Tenn., which clipping gives an
account of the Duke dance in the
Washington Duke Hotel. Over the
top of the clipping is written in pencil,
“A stigma, a disgrace; the beginning
of the end of Few." The clipping
ip question is n reproduction of a
press dispatch from Durham ou Feb
ruary 12, stating that the regular
junior proin was one of the liveliest
social events of the season. The dis
patch cornea to the heart of the matter
in the second paragraph.
The list of chaperones included
many members of the Duke faculty.
(Among the chaperones enumerated
were Prof, and Mrs. Harvle Brans
comb. As will be remembered, Pro
essor Jlranscomb was the chairman of
the noted Findings Committee of the
’young people’s convention gathered in
j Memphis about a year ago. He is
I aim) professor of New Testament in
Duke University.)
EUTOIESE DIRECT
DEFENSIVETOm
WIHMID
The Object is to
Gen. Chang’s
ese Forces Their
Supply Base.
RAIDINGPARTY
BEGINS DRIVE
British Marines Land in
Shantung.—The Ameri
can Marines to March
Through Streets.
Shanghai. March —(A>)—lncreas
ing indications today were that the
next major effort by the nationalists
would be a thrust in the direction of
the Nanking Railway, with the ob
ject of tutting off General Chang
Tsuug Chang's Shautungese forces
from their base.
A nationalist raiding party is re
ported to have engaged the northerners
at Wtikiang on the Nanking Rail
road, aud there are other indications
that the southerners nre advancing in
st rength. ,
The. retirement of Li Pao Chang
ns defense commissioner of Shanghai
was in accordance with the elimina
tion from the Shanghai area of all
those connected with the collapsed
forces of Marshnl Sun, who until ten
days ago was the chief defender of
this city against the nationalists.
Li Pao Chang has left for the north.
It. is reported he feared to remain ow
ing to the beheading of strike agita
tors, for which he was responsible.
The American marines will march
through the international settlement
here Saturday.
One thousand British marines land
ed today and marched through the
settlement. Thousands of foreigners
and Chinese gathered to welcome them.
Squads of soldiers and police were re
quired to maintain sufficient room for
te column to pass.
WHAT 18 CAUSING IT?
Big Slump in the Manufacture of
Cigarettes in North Carolina.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Ytftlter Hotel
I Raleigh, M*rch-2^\yhat.isca*tiiq{
the slump in the mariufncWre 6f cig
arettes in the slate for the last month
or six weeks? Are the tobacco man
ufacturing companies purposely cur
tailing production, waiting to see what
the general assembly is going to do
about taxing them, especially with re
gard to a tax on production?
While no exact information can be
obtained as to What the reason is,
the fact remains that there 'aas been
a big slump in the production of cig
arettes in-the state, as indicated by
the decrease in the amount collected j
by the'United States internal revenue
depnftmen! for February, the figures
having just been announced by Gil
liam aSrissom, eoliector for North Car-
olina.
Collections for February were $250,-
817 less than for February, 1920
which is the largest decrease over any
other corresponding montli for the past
two years, aecohding to Mr. Grissom.
But Mr. Grissom positively declined
to venture any reason for the decrease,
aside from a decrease in the demand
for cigarette revenue stamps.
However, despite this large decrease i
in collections for February, collec- j
tious for the entire year are still $7.-1
500,000 in excess of collections for the j
first eight months of the preceding j
year. For the first eight months of
the fiscal year 1925-20 collections were
$121,500,214. while for the first eight
months of the present fiscal year,
through February, collections have
amounted to $129,003,518. But as a
result of the slump in collections in
January and February it does not now
appear that collection's for the present
fiscal year will amount to $200,000,-
000, as was at first thought possible.
But since it is generally admitted
that there is no decrease in the de
mand for cigarettes, a number are of
the opinion that the manufacturers
are merely “sitting tight” to gee what
the general assembly is giong to do
before putting on full steam ahead for
full capacity production.
PROHIBITION MEASURE
IS PASSED BY SENATE
Bill Creating Bureau of Dry Law
Enforcement Amended Before Being
Approved.
Washington, March 2.—Operating
under rules limiting debate, the sen
ate late today passed with amend
ments the house prohibition reorgani
sation bill. The vote was 71 to 6.
Prohibition, the Anti-Saloon League
and politicians came in for scathing
attacks as the measure, which would
create bureaus of prohibition and cus
toms in the treasury department, was
brought to a Vote with the aid of clo
ture.
Minor amendments force a return
of the bill to the house for concur
rence. It has been demanded by As
sistant Secretary Andrews, chief of
the dry forces.
In addition to separating prohibi
tion enforcement from the internal
revenue bureau it also would place
dry employes under the civil service.
Reject Muscle Shoals Bids.
Washington. March 8. —C4*)—Bids
of the American Cyanamid Company
and the Farmers Federated Fertiliser
Association for Muscle Shoals were
rejected by the House Military com
mittee today.
THE TOIBUNM
PRINTS isl I
TODAY’S NEWS TODAY I
sihF
NO. 46
BRIGHT MIKES 1
SMI MOVING TtSL]
'ISM STATE
Clogged ffiMMji
r ways Will Be
! Some for Traffic Durfi#a
j the Day.
BUILDING ROOFS
BADLY DAMAGED I
Six Buildings in Gmmm
boro, One at Wilson tiftd
Two at
aged by the Snw*
Charlotte, March B.—" I
sunshine that quickly started . *h* J
heavy blanket of snow to iapottflri>
greeted North Carolina, this morfiing;
adding to the hope that clogged K
ways throughout the state soon SHOW
be cleared.
Prospects today were that fcgyfllfe
night most of the difficulties
by the unusually heavy snow that jtt
some places reached new record pHf
portions virtually would be ovetfiJflt
eept for the sloppiuess underfoot.SM
of the cities had cleared their stfußlV .
by this morning and traffic and tftMifii
car services resumed something, ife
normal appearance. State High#®#'
Commissioner Page in a stat«Mß;,
this morning said highways woullpti
cleared by tonight and traffic beedWe
normal.
The snow that began failing
day in many places ceased
the State last night, but. not WMBpS
the heavy weight had caved £h
roofs of six buildings at Goldsboro, one
at Wilson and two at Snlisbnrfc j
Street car service was suspended' Alt
Winston-Salem, and badly dhnnMlW'
in other places. Automobile and wit
traffic was barred or badly hautjMfpfeif
everywhere.
Freezing temperatures last night
added to the discomfort caugedjjfc
the snow, and in many places added
icy covering to streets and rocdwhjpS
The drop in temperature, howeVhr:fi
was not extreme and by 9 a. m. the
snow was beginning to meit in naaay-, 4
places. -,l3|g(
Hickory and Asheville reported the
lowest overnight temperature, with .
21. High Point reported 24, Gusto*-,«
ia 28, Greensboro 25, Salisbury “be
low and Winston-Salem
Raleigh 25. The mercury here de
scended to 27.
Eastern North Carolina suffered
the most heavily of any section euf*- '■
cially in the disruption of oommwiiijgggf
tion lines. Albemarle Sound seetiwi ?
was completely cut off from wire com
munication in . any direction; flßßjijjl
beth City and Edeuton having Mid. -
without wire communication of any
kind since yesterday morning with
little prospect of resumption tw.
New Bern has been without comtnW* y
icatiou with the outside world
yesterday, although the Western Jap ’
ion Telegraph Company had oae no#
today working in that city. ■■{■2-4
The roofs of the Goldsboro Argus
and the Goldsboro News, the fifch i
papers of Goldsboro, caved in yegfitip.-
day, along with the roofs of four oth
er buildings. A tobacco warehouse at
Wilson fell in and a garage arid n
warehouse at Salisbury. Schools were
closed for the remainder of the week
in many sections.
STEAMER AGROUND - j
i Steamer Finnore Driven Aground by
| Gale Which Swept Coast Yestof.
; day.
Baltimore, March — (An —The
steamer Firmore today was reptfPQ«
aground off Smith's Point, Va.,
the mouth of the Potomac RiiNjr,
She was driven ashore by the jm
which swept the South Atlantic tidbit
yesterday. The Firmore, which lb
bound from Daiquiri for Baltimore
with a cargo of ore, was reptjnM.-;
aground last night, bnt her poiMHm
then was not known. No particuTjjH T :
were given in the radiogram reotMtH
here, but the ship is not bclievfll
be in a dangerous position.
Heaviest Snow in Half Century in
Statesville. rMK
Statesville, March 2.—Statesville
today looked out on the heavwbt
blanket of snow in this section Wm
54 years. The official weatheF w
server l-iqiorted 18 1-2 inches i» nth
level aikl in many places drifts pi
several feet deep.
Older inhabitants remember that
on March 18,1873, a total of 20 inch
es was reported officially. - ffija
Business was completely suspends
ed for several hours this morning.
Trains, mails aud bus lines arc
up. Eaetbound Southern railway
train number 15 was tied up hegu
four hours by suow ami the IfidjK
from Charlotte, due at 4:50 a.
was five bourn late. y
Baby Found on Highway £■■
Elkin Adopted. M'S
Elkin. Mar. 3.—The little gM
baby thnt was found on the highway,
just outside of the i town Umit* ?|vj3
weeks ago has been adopted by
and Mis. J. A. Homers, of this -bPjfe
Doris Fay is the name givwn li*Ma
her it -ter parents and the little iß|fc
is fortunate to have fallen uttWylH
care of these good people and slmrl
with them the comforts of thekfAMß
home. >li
•itsa jk mirarn nvtDn/i A AMMfcv
W EATHKR FORB(MiK|^|
Fair tonight Friday, continued
cold, frecaing temperature -